[Xastir] Volcano Symbol plus changing to igating

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> When you say we drop the packets on the floor, is that before or after
> Xastir handles it "internally"? If Xastir hears a general query "?APRS"
> packet on RF, does it now ignore it totally as part of the "not gating from
> RF to Inet"?

I believe we handle things internally before calling the igate code.
Whether or not we handle many of the queries, or handle them
correctly, is a bigger question.  I don't play with queries much.


> By the way: what does the "?APRS" general query do? Is it supposed to cause
> all clients to report their position, like a kind of "who's out there, let
> me know" system?

Got me.  Might be in the spec.

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